https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/In-cDOT-8-3-traffic-will-route-from-the-data-LIF-even-if-it-is-a-non-local-path/m-p/113036#M23948 <P>I read the following commnet on traffic routing, but not able to understand. Can anybody please help me out, it sounds a very important concept.</P><P><U><STRONG>Prior to 8.3, SVMs routed at a node level, so traffic could only travel via the node that owned a data LIF. In cDOT 8.3, traffic will route from the data LIF even if it is a non-local path</STRONG></U>.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If you can, please show me an example as for what can be achieve or what cannot be achive in cases of priro to 8.3 or 8.3</P><P>I thought data can be traveled across differnt nodes via local LIF, or LIF on another node, in&nbsp; any version of CDOT.</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:39:49 GMT netappmagic 2025-06-04T22:39:49Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/In-cDOT-8-3-traffic-will-route-from-the-data-LIF-even-if-it-is-a-non-local-path/m-p/113036#M23948 <P>I read the following commnet on traffic routing, but not able to understand. Can anybody please help me out, it sounds a very important concept.</P><P><U><STRONG>Prior to 8.3, SVMs routed at a node level, so traffic could only travel via the node that owned a data LIF. In cDOT 8.3, traffic will route from the data LIF even if it is a non-local path</STRONG></U>.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If you can, please show me an example as for what can be achieve or what cannot be achive in cases of priro to 8.3 or 8.3</P><P>I thought data can be traveled across differnt nodes via local LIF, or LIF on another node, in&nbsp; any version of CDOT.</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:39:49 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/In-cDOT-8-3-traffic-will-route-from-the-data-LIF-even-if-it-is-a-non-local-path/m-p/113036#M23948 netappmagic 2025-06-04T22:39:49Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/In-cDOT-8-3-traffic-will-route-from-the-data-LIF-even-if-it-is-a-non-local-path/m-p/113051#M23956 <P>It speaks about <STRONG>outgoing</STRONG> connections (such as DNS, LDAP, NTP etc). Handling of those was changing between Data ONTAP 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3. 8.3 now can use LIFs on different nodes as "proxy" for such connections. Previous versions required that suitable LIF was present on node that initiated connection.</P> Fri, 27 Nov 2015 07:15:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/In-cDOT-8-3-traffic-will-route-from-the-data-LIF-even-if-it-is-a-non-local-path/m-p/113051#M23956 aborzenkov 2015-11-27T07:15:43Z